Head of Human Resources

San Francisco, CA, United States

The Company You'll Join

Carta is a platform that helps people manage equity, build businesses, and invest in the companies of tomorrow. Our mission is to unlock the power of equity ownership for more people in more places.

Carta is trusted by more than 40,000 companies and over two million people in nearly 160 countries to manage cap tables, compensation, and valuations. Carta also supports nearly 7,000 funds and SPVs, and represents nearly $130B in assets under administration. Carta's tender offer solutions have returned $14B to shareholders in secondary transactions. Today, Carta's platform manages nearly three trillion dollars in equity globally.

For more information about our offices and culture, check out our Carta careers page.

The Team You'll Work With

Reporting to the Chief People Officer, we are looking to bring on a Head of Human Resources to lead our 20-person HR organization within the broader People team. You will build meaningful relationships and partnerships with our Executive Team, business stakeholders, People Leadership Team, and other cross-functional partners.

The Problems You'll Solve

As a dynamic HR leader with a passion for transforming challenges into opportunities, you will consult with the leadership team and work closely with the broader People Team to execute HR strategies that help build a high performing team and culture at Carta. With your leadership, the HR function will be an advisor and strategic partner in helping Carta meet its business goals and objectives.

A few other things you'll do:

Learn the Carta business inside and out so you can be a strategic advisor on all things talent and people

Drive global HR functional excellence and process improvement

Provide strategic partnership and counsel to the Carta executive leadership team

Develop and drive the People strategy to meet our aggressive business goals

Partner with the business to execute on key People initiatives (performance management, compensation, benefits, development programs, etc)

Provide guidance and input on workforce planning, succession planning, compensation, promotions, lateral transfers, leveling, and benchmarking

Build strong relationships with employees, management, and the leadership team

Act as an employee champion and change agent, proactively communicating needs with our broader People team and senior leadership

Successfully influence others by providing direction, knowledge, and support to create a high-performing organization

Maintain in-depth knowledge of legal requirements related to day-to-day management of employees, reducing legal risks and ensuring regulatory compliance

Ensure proactive compliance with all labor, wage, and health and safety laws

Provide coaching to the business and help set the People priorities

Roll up your sleeves and dive into the high volume of daily operational HR needs, working with our HR operations team to streamline and optimize workflows to gain efficiencies and improve the employee experience

Oversee and drive global and local consistency by collaborating with our head of ER to manage and resolve employee relations issues

About You

You are a master of your craft. You have at least 12 years of HRBP and/or HR experience and you worked in a Financial Services or Fintech company in the last 5 years (preferred)

Prior experience leading an HR function with a global presence and a track record of unifying people processes and the employee experience across all locations

You've implemented and built standardized and scalable processes across an HR function to drive efficiencies and results

You have overseen, implemented, and iterated upon complex people programs

You have a history of building strategic and effective partnerships with the People Team COEs and cross-functional partners (recruiting, total rewards, legal, ops, systems etc.)

You have outstanding people skills and high emotional intelligence which allows you to quickly and easily build trust with business stakeholders and employees

You lead with data. You know how to generate a hypothesis and love using data to tell stories that help inform talent strategy

You are comfortable coaching executives and delivering feedback

You are highly organized and are skilled at sequencing competing priorities quickly

You lead by example and exemplify Carta's operating principles and identity traits; with an emphasis on having a bias to action, being relentless, and doing the right thing

Salary

Carta's compensation package includes a market competitive salary, equity for all full time roles, exceptional benefits, and, for applicable roles, commissions plans. Our minimum cash compensation (salary + commission if applicable) range for this role is: $247,500 - $330,000 in San Francisco and New York.

Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, and other factors.

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to providing a positive interview experience for every candidate. If accommodations due to a disability or medical condition are needed, please connect with the recruiter via email. As a company, we value fairness, helpfulness, transparency, leadership and build our teams around these values. Check out our careers page to get to know us better as you think about your next step at Carta.

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Awards and Acknowledgements

Companies and funds like Tribe and Pipe build their businesses on Carta. The company has been included on the Forbes World's Best Cloud Companies, Fast Company's Most Innovative list, and Inc.'s Fastest-Growing Private Companies. We've also been recognized as a 2023 Built In Best Place to Work in the U.S., a Muse VIBE Award winner in the Vacation and Time Off category and certified as a Great Place to Work.

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